Novell Home

CVE-2008-5256

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

[Previous] [Index] [Next]

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5256 at MITRE

Description

The AcquireDaemonLock function in ipcdUnix.cpp in Sun Innotek VirtualBox before 2.0.6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.vbox-$USER-ipc/lock temporary file.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.4 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entry: 448240

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE 10.3
  • virtualbox >= 1.5.2-10.4
  • virtualbox-guest-tools >= 1.5.2-10.4
  • xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox >= 1.5.2-10.4

© 2012 Novell